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...a Cochrane Review Meta-Analysis Study
Educational and Skills-based Interventions for Preventing Relationship and Dating Violence in Adolescents and Young Adults
Critique of a Cochrane Review Meta-Analysis Study
There is a high rate of violence between young adults in relationships. As this is becoming more prevalent it is important to strengthenone’s knowledge base to help prevent this form of violence. A meta-analysis is a process to combine the findings from several independent research studies in a statistical manner. This method is used most often to evaluate the rational and useful way associate several research studies to determine effectiveness of an intervention (Crombie& Davies, 2009). A critique of a study is, “a careful appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of a study” (Polit & Beck, 2008, p. 123). These show areas of inadequacy and adequacy within a research study and to identify any errors.
Within this paper there will be a critique of the Cochrane Review Meta-Analysis, “Educational Skills-based Interventions for Preventing Relationship and Dating Violence in Adolescents and Young Adults.” This critique will have several divisions; identification of the level of evidence, describe the search of the literature and the adequacy of the search, description of the replication process, discuss any problems or differences, identify gaps within the literature, discuss any...

...introduced a mandatory requirement for its registrants (except for those that qualify as foreign private issuers) to have quarterly reviews of interim F/S by their independent public accountants. A decade later, the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AASB) in Canada is considering whether interim F/S should be subject to mandatory reviews. The advantages and pitfalls associated with such a change can each be considered from the perspectives of the client and auditor.
Benefits: One of the key benefits to both auditors and clients of interim review engagements is the earlier identification and resolution of issues that affect financial reporting quality, thereby potentially increasing the reliability and relevance of quarterly F/S and the financial reporting process of companies that are not currently reviewed. Research indicates that reviews appear to reduce the deferral of adjustments to the fourth quarter, translating into potentially fewer restatements of interim and annual F/S. For auditors, mandatory interim reviews would shift certain work from year-end to earlier periods, thereby distributing audit effort. It would also save them time because problems that would not otherwise have been detected until the year-end audit would be fixed when discovered during the interim review engagements. In addition, auditors believe that mandatory reviews will act as an incentive...

...Writing Resources
Writing a Book Review
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A critical book review is a thoughtful discussion of a text's contents, strengths, and limitations. A book review should reflect your capacity to read critically and to evaluate an author's arguments and evidence. Compose your review as you would any essay, with an argument supported by evidence, and a clear, logical structure.
Initial Steps:
1. Read the book carefully, taking notes on material that you think may be relevant or quotable and on your impressions of the author's ideas and arguments.
2. Determine the author's principal argument, the chief themes of the text, the kinds of evidence used, and the way in which the author uses them.
Organizing the Review
1. All reviews begin with bibliographic information: the author's name, the book's full title, place of publication, publisher, edition, date, pagination, and cost, if known.
2. In no more than two paragraphs, introduce the book. Give your initial appraisal of the work, including your key observation on the text. This key observation will be your thesis. Try not to begin with a flat statement such as "This book is interesting." Begin with an anecdote, a challenging quotation, or a key observation.
3. Follow with descriptive analysis and evaluation of the text. You may either treat these topics separately, first describing the book's contents, the...

...BOTOX UK LTD
PERFORMANCE REVIEW FORM
Date of Review …17th April 2013…….. Period Covered ……Oct 2012 - March 2013……
Name of Manager …Tessa Thomas… Name of employee …Angela Marraner………….
Job Role of Employee ……Senior Customer Sales Advisor…………………………………………..
Please complete and return to your line manager at least 7 days before your review date
1. How do you feel you have performed over the last six months in your role?
I feel that my performance is not up to my usual standards, as I have not met my monthly sales targets for the last six months. I feel that my work ethic still feels consistent and I have still been exceeding my customer service targets. I think the lack of sales is due to higher admin work due to the influx of new starters not confident with the processes.
2. What do you feel has gone well over the last six months?
I am an excellent team player and have enjoyed the new responsibility of assisting the new starters. This has helped me increase product knowledge and learn how to train. Alongside that my customer service scores are still exceeding and I have successfully maintained excellent after call work where possible.
3. What do you feel has not gone so well?
Unfortunately although I have a new found responsibility to assist the new starters, my sales targets over the last six months have not met my usual standard. I...

...﻿Restaurant Reviews: a Genre that Rants and Raves
Introduction
For the past century people have turned to restaurant reviews to guide their culinary experiences. More and more we see this genre becoming apparent in our every day lives. With iPhone apps like Urbanspoon, Yelp, Forkly, Foodspotting, and the New York Times, reading restaurant reviews has become accessible by the touch of a button. However, this new generation of discussion forums and rating systems has made it difficult for the general public to distinguish reliable restaurant reviews from reviews written by nonprofessionals.
The study of restaurant reviews is important because these reviews carry information that a rating or a recommendation alone may not have. For instance, food critics talk about the aura of a restaurant, how it is decorated, the type of people that work there, the cost, and more. Exploring this genre and its patterns is valuable for readers of restaurant reviews because it gives them the “low down” on which reviews provide more helpful information. It’s also important for people who want to write them or entrepreneurs looking to enter into the restaurant business. In this study I will compare food critic reviews with blogger-type reviews using the Food and Wine Magazine and websites like Gayot and Urbanspoon. From these...

...primary role of literaturereview in a quantitative research study to gain information on the subject of your research question and identify unbiased and valid studies connected with your research question. For instance, my quantitative research question is “all other factors being equal, do high school students reading popular fiction achieve better Language Arts test scores than high school students reading curriculum-required fiction?” My hypothesis is that high school students reading popular fiction will outperform the students who read curriculum-required fiction, because if you enjoy reading you will perform better. Then I need to do a literaturereview to discover if my question has already been answered and I may need to modify it or if there are related studies to my research question that can provide quantifiable research.
Introduction
Quantitative Research involves collecting numerical data though content analysis, performance tests, personality measures, questionnaires, etc. This type of research procedures include an objective/unbiased approach to collecting numerical data from a large number of participants and analyzes these numbers using statistics in order to answer a specific, narrow research question. As part of research, a literaturereview is required. A quantitative literaturereview is an extensive review of...

...Narrative literaturereviews
Introduction
n A literaturereview is a comprehensive study and interpretation of the work that has been published on a particular topic
n A literaturereview should convey the knowledge and ideas that have been established on a topic and their strengths and limitations
Why undertake a literaturereview?
n To provide a review of the current knowledge in a particular field
n Provide a description of research studies
n Identify gaps in current knowledge
n Identify emerging theoretical issues
n Identify theories relevant to your chosen topic
n Allow studies to be compared and contrasted
n Learn about the practice experience of others
n Become informed about the debates and arguments on a specific subject
n Question our practice and identify opportunities for change
n ( Bryant et al 2003, Price 2003)
The value of literaturereviews
n The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccination media stories in 1998-1999
n In 1998 Wakefield published an article in the Lancet suggesting a possible link between the vaccination, autism and bowel disorders. Based on 12 children, no controls
n Newspaper headlines led the public to believe that the link was more certain than Wakefield’s report concluded
n The effect was that vaccination rates dropped by half – measles reappeared having been almost...

...Purpose of a LiteratureReview
- to identify what has already been done/found, in relation to the research topic that is being studied and answers the question of what needs to happen next.
- provide a brief overview of research you've read.
- Demonstrate that you understand the topic and have significant knowledge within the field of study and then make a case.
- Making a case may be an analysis of research, study, or conceptual argument.
- Also, be sure to include a persuasive argument.
- At the end of a literaturereview you should identify a gap or misinterpretation within the information (identify and explore the gap).
- My approach to writing this literaturereview was somewhat similar to the writing of a "regular" essay. I've used this approach in past assignments I've completed including such as a narrative and an annotated bibliography. They all have similar characteristics. Thank goodness for this! It gives me an idea of where to start. I believe these common characteristics are the main subject of the piece of writing and evidence/textuality of your point from other readings. Textuality is using pieces of writing from other works to support your points. Beware, though these essays may serve as a guide, they also have many differences.
- What should you do next? *Ponders*
- Information! Information! Information! Be resourceful,...